LOS ANGELES - A 62-year-old train
engineer who was hospitalized after a
train crash and derailment last week
in Southern California has died, in
the first fatality from the incident
that left about 50 people injured,
police said on Tuesday.

ABUJA - Nigeria's Islamist sect Boko
Haram released a video purporting to
show it beheading two men, its first
online posting using advanced graphics
and editing techniques reminiscent of
footage from Islamic State.

Thousands of Russians, many carrying red carnations, on Tuesday filed past the coffin of Boris Nemtsov, the Kremlin critic whose killing last week, friends say, showed the hazards of speaking out against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

OSLO - The committee that awards the
Nobel Peace Prize demoted its chairman
on Tuesday, for the first time in the
114-year history of the award after
his right-wing opponents won a
majority on the prestigious panel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday against accepting a nuclear deal with Iran that would be a "countdown to a potential nuclear nightmare" by a country that "will always be an enemy of America".

Mohammed Emwazi, the Briton identified as Islamic State killer "Jihadi John," was denied entry to Tanzania in 2009 at the request of British security services, a Tanzanian police source said on Tuesday.

A pensioner has started digging in Germany's western Ruhr region for the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during the Second World War and missing for 70 years, but says he needs a new drill to help him.

MOSCOW - A Russian lawyer for Edward
Snowden said on Tuesday the fugitive
former U.S. spy agency contractor who
leaked details of the government's
mass surveillance programmes was
working with American and German
lawyers to return home.